With a background in the broadcasting and marketing industries, Nivasha Naidoo has been promoted from SABC2 brand manager to SABC2 marketing manager to oversee the various brand portfolios at the national broadcaster, it was announced yesterday, Wednesday, 29 October 2008.

Newsstands are crowded with successful magazines aimed at teenage girls, but there are few, if any, general interest magazines for teenage boys, and yet there are over 4.75 million young men in this demographic in South Africa. With this in mind, DevAd Publishing & Promotions is launching Boyz Only magazine, targeted at young men between the ages of 10 and 18.

The CIO Challenge, powered by Deloitte and hosted by Topco Media, to be held at The Campus, The Forum, Bryanston on 10th and 11th September, is a conference targeting individuals involved in the IT industry.

In any efficient organisation, often the voice on the other end of the phone is the client's first and most important point of contact. The call centre agent thus becomes the all-important voice of the organisation.

The Loeries Awards have come a long way and have grown in leaps and bounds to become the annual industry event. At the still youthful age of 30, this year the Loeries aimed to make mom proud but, unfortunately, there were incidents that definitely must have disappointed her as much as they did the chairman of Draftfcb Nkwenkwe Nkomo.

TNS Research Surveys (Pty) Ltd, South Africa's leading marketing and social insights company, has released their Market Sentiment Index (MSI) results for metropolitan adults for June 2008 (the study was conducted from 5 to 15 June).

The Loeries weekend is officially over but it didn't go off without a few shenanigans here and there. While it may be very funny to name and shame the drunk and disorderly, we're not going to. We're rather going to post their pics up on Facebook and poke fun at them that way. We've also handed out a few awards of our own.

Tonight, Sunday, 27 July 2008 at the 30th anniversary of the Loerie Awards in Margate, a total of 112 Loeries were handed out, of which only two were Grands Prix: King James in TV & Cinema Commercials for Alan Gray ‘Beautiful', and Net#work BBDO and Gloo Digital Design in Experiential Digital Mixed-Media Campaign for ‘Youngblood5'.

“While entries from print and internet journalists predominated, it [has been] pleasing to receive entries from the regional commercial and local radio stations, as well as from e.tv,” comments judge Robin Kempthorne in advance of the 2005 SAB Sports Journalist of the Year Awards, to be announced at a Sandton gala event on Thursday, 11 May 2006.

At the drop of a hat, companies espouse their vision/value statements. These company statements can be found in annual reports, in company literature such as brochures and, if one looks carefully there will be framed (slightly dusty) statements in the reception areas of head offices.